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The Top Energy Stories to Watch in 2008


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Say goodbye to the year that brought a 65 percent run-up in the price of a barrel of oil and a Nobel Peace Prize to punctuate the message of the heralds of climate disaster. It was a [...]

Latest round of killings leaves us wondering if there are any safe havens


And so another dark day came, when we turned on the television and heard the replays of gunfire, not exactly sure from where and not exactly sure why.
Other customary images followed. The ones we always see. The line of waiting ambulances. The scurrying police, with automatic weapons drawn. The stunned faces and broken voices of [...]

State bars PG&E and other power companies from buying dirty power


California power companies will be barred from buying electricity from most coal-fired power plants after state utility regulators adopted new limits on emissions of heat-trapping gases linked to global warming.
Thursday’s 4-0 vote by the Public Utilities Commission prohibits investor-owned utilities from entering long-term contracts to obtain electricity from sources that emit more carbon dioxide than [...]

Gas prices dip below $2 a gallon


Mild winter plus overstocks equals red letter day for drivers.
Motorists got a belated Christmas gift Friday when gas prices in the Milwaukee area dropped below $2 a gallon for the first time in nearly two years.
“It’s about time,” said Larry Wright, who stopped to fill up his pickup truck at Mukwonago Express Mart, where regular [...]